We Visited Those New Bitcoin ATMs in the Ukraine and Here's What We Found
When Coin ATM Radar announced 16,000 new Bitcoin-enabled ATMs in the Ukraine, we here at CCN decided to see these machines for ourselves. Do they exist? Do they really work? Are they a good deal? Read on to find out. So we commissioned a private investigator to take a look at 10 of these newly-minted Bitcoin ATMs in the port city of Berdiansk in Southeast Ukraine. We found that 7 of these 10, randomly selected, ATMs were present where Coin ATM Radar said they would be, and were in working order. But 3 were either out of service, nowhere to be found or lacking Bitcoin service. The Market....
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